Re: OT: Max and his Out of Office AutoReply

2004-05-14 Thread Norm Baugher
LOL! And the scary part is it's true Norm Peter J. Alling wrote: The only problem with the X19 was that once it's wheels broke loose you had now idea what direction you would be facing when the spin stopped.

Re: Agfa: news straight from the source (fwd)

2004-05-14 Thread Norm Baugher
Time to start stocking up on APX 100, I think Norm Shel Belinkoff wrote: FWIW to those who care ... To: Leica Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Leica] Agfa: news straight from the source Agfa is splitting its photographic film and paper division off from the mother company, due to 19

RE: Quick DA question...

2004-05-14 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
Watch it now, I went to City College of New York in NYC. We had no football team. Try going to Harlem and calling them geeks :-) The only team to win the NIT and NCAA in basketball the same year, César Panama City, Florida -Original Message- From: Dan Matyola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ever had one of those days......

2004-05-14 Thread William Robb
Ain't minilabs wonderful? Next time, take them a good print, although for the most part, the photo transfer type items are crap quality. William Robb - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Ever had one of those days.. > .. where you wonder if you are actually

Re: Ever had one of those days......

2004-05-14 Thread Norm Baugher
Frankwe need to talk. Norm frank theriault wrote: ...which reminds me of my favourite pick up line: "You know, you're beautiful when I'm drunk!"

Re: another mishap

2004-05-14 Thread Paul Stenquist
I've seen the Pentax 100-300 selling for less than $150. Lenses in this price range seem to go quite cheap. Just stick out your chin and buy another one. Paul On May 14, 2004, at 8:08 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While emptying the truck from camping last Sunday my 70-300 Sigma fell out of an

RE: GFM Question

2004-05-14 Thread Shaun Canning
Ah Stan, you're a man after my own heart... Cheers Shaun Dr. Shaun Canning Cultural Heritage Services 11 Lawrence Way Karratha, Western Australia, 6714 0414-967644 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.heritageservices.com.au -Original Message- From: Stan Halpin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Se

RE: Automatic Sensitivity Setting on *ist D

2004-05-14 Thread Shaun Canning
I should have specified that I was shooting indoors in low light Peter, but it still freaked me out, until I figured out what was happening. It's now set at 200 where it will stay unless I need it otherwise. As for the program line, I leave mine set to normal (as I did on the z-1p and z-1 before

Re: Automatic Sensitivity Setting on *ist D

2004-05-14 Thread alex wetmore
On Sat, 15 May 2004, Peter Loveday wrote: > Actually, my Canon S45 digicam has this "Custom" mode (the G3/G5 etc have > more than 1 I think), which is also on the mode-dial. "What a great > feature" I thought to start, I set it up so that mode was flash-disabled, > ISO 400 (high as it goes), etc t

Re: GFM Question

2004-05-14 Thread Stan Halpin
Cold straight from the fridge super supreme pizza - the breakfast of Gods! Great for hangovers! But it is so hard to have left-overs available. Stan Cotty wrote: On 14/5/04, CHILLI BILLIE, discombobulated, offered: whoa - what about the pizza??? Ain't that for Friday night? Nope, Saturday lunc

Re: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread Norm Baugher
Thanks for the feedback Shel, makes perfect sensethat's why I made my comment. I don't know anything about "street shooting". Norm Shel Belinkoff wrote: it's nice to see the results when a particular setup is used outside its usual arena of expectation.

New eBay Listing

2004-05-14 Thread Shaun Canning
Just listed Pentax AF500FTZ Flash in 9.5/10 condition. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15240&item=381 5964130 I am still on the lookout for an AF140c Ring Flash if anyone is interested! Cheers Shaun Dr. Shaun Canning Cultural Heritage Services 11 Lawrence Way Karra

Re: Automatic Sensitivity Setting on *ist D

2004-05-14 Thread Peter Loveday
I'm sure that the auto sensitivity setting on the *ist D would be really handy for some folk in some situations, but I just spent about an hour looking for the reboot button on my *ist D 'cause the damned thing would only shoot at 3200 ISO. What the hells going on here I think to myself...who has b

Re: Pentax and USB 2.0

2004-05-14 Thread Peter Loveday
Then my guess is that it's likely that your USB1.1 interface was poorly implemented. If you can't get better than 1GB/s out of the camera it's a USB1.1 interface. 1GB/s? Damn, now that'd be nice :) Love, Light and Peace, - Peter Loveday Director of Development, eyeon Software

Re: Magic Sigma Teleconverter

2004-05-14 Thread Peter J. Alling
No it's just a bug in the firmware. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Summary : My Pentax ZX-5n has a Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 attached to it via a Sigma 2X Teleconverter. When the zoom is set to 400mm (w/2x teleconverter) and the apeture is opened all the way (F2.8), my Zx-5n reads the apeture at an F-stop

Re: Quick DA question...

2004-05-14 Thread Peter J. Alling
I just love the Florida Institute of Technology's football jersey with the motto "Still Undefeated"... Dan Matyola wrote: REALgeek schools don't have football teams! Peter J. Alling wrote: Georgia Tech. only "thinks" they're as good a MIT... (I know that'll get me in trouble but "cest la vie").

Automatic Sensitivity Setting on *ist D

2004-05-14 Thread Shaun Canning
I'm sure that the auto sensitivity setting on the *ist D would be really handy for some folk in some situations, but I just spent about an hour looking for the reboot button on my *ist D 'cause the damned thing would only shoot at 3200 ISO. What the hells going on here I think to myself...who has b

Re: Ever had one of those days......

2004-05-14 Thread frank theriault
...which reminds me of my favourite pick up line: "You know, you're beautiful when I'm drunk!" It doesn't work very well... -frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Norm Baugher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Remin

RE: Ever had one of those days......

2004-05-14 Thread frank theriault
Wendy, I hate Blacks. The last time I ventured into one (I was very bored), I became very excited when I saw a sign on their film fridge saying "30% off selected film". Right below said sign, inside the glass door of the fridge, was a box full of HP5+. Trying my best to remain calm sounding, I

Re: Pentax and USB 2.0

2004-05-14 Thread Rob Studdert
On 14 May 2004 at 21:41, Mark Roberts wrote: > I dunno. But my ist-D downloads *much* faster into a USB 2.0 connection > than into USB 1.1. Then my guess is that it's likely that your USB1.1 interface was poorly implemented. If you can't get better than 1GB/s out of the camera it's a USB1.1 int

Re: Quick DA question...

2004-05-14 Thread Dan Matyola
REALgeek schools don't have football teams! Peter J. Alling wrote: Georgia Tech. only "thinks" they're as good a MIT... (I know that'll get me in trouble but "cest la vie").

RE: non A lenses on the istD

2004-05-14 Thread Amita Guha
I got it working. Woohoo! Thanks again. :) Amita

RE: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread frank theriault
But, Tanja, You never do self-portaits, remember? -frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: "TMP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Street Photography .

This year's GFM beers

2004-05-14 Thread Bill Owens
I'll start these tomorrow for GFM NPW Blow up a party with this July 4th treat. If you really want to blast off, turn this into Cherry Bomb Ale by adding an additional ½ cup of honey. Ingredients - 1 can High Country Canadian Draft - 1 can Dark Sweet Cherries, pureed with juice - 1 teaspoon Cinnam

Re: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread frank theriault
What Paul said. I bet they'd be terrific blown up to poster size, seen in a gallery setting. Good as they are, seeing them on a puter screen clearly doesn't do them justice. Thanks for the post, Shel. cheers, frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fe

Point Pelee-Lots of big glass

2004-05-14 Thread Pentxuser
Just got back from photographing migrating Birds at Point Pelee National Park in Canada. For those of you who are not aware of it, it is one of the prime birding locations in the world during the spring migration. Birders and Photographers there from around the world. Mostly North America. A lot

Re: another mishap

2004-05-14 Thread Robert & Leigh Woerner
I have the Tamron 70-300 LD Macro (62mm filter size). It has great bokeh. It goes 1:2 macro from 180mm to 300mm. Sells for less than $200.00 new at B&H and Adorama if they still stock. You may find it used at KEH. It is a light lens which does not suffer from bad zoom creep. Robert - Original

RE: another mishap

2004-05-14 Thread frank theriault
Cory, No suggestions, just commiserations. As one who just got a body back from the shop this week, having been repaired for damages received after a hamfisted drop to the pavement, I feel your pain. Hopefully, you can get it repaired? If not, practice composing variations of "We have for auctio

Re: another mishap

2004-05-14 Thread Bill Owens
No, mine is 75-300 1:4-5.6 LD Tele Macro (1:3.9). I don't remember where I bought it, but at the time it had been recently discontinued and was only $149.00 on clearance sale new. Bill - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 9:06

Re: PAW: Just when you thought it was safe...

2004-05-14 Thread frank theriault
Yours is good, too, Boris! cheers, frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am kinda sorry, but it reminds me of this: http://boris.isra-shop.com/photos/basic-zoom/s

RE: PAW: Just when you thought it was safe...

2004-05-14 Thread frank theriault
Rob, I'm gonna piss you right off now! I already provided you with comments, having had the great privilege of a sneak preview (maybe I was an unknowing guinea pig). I said it was good, but not great, IIRC, or words to that effect. Well, now that I settle back to gaze upon it for a more extende

Re: Pentax and USB 2.0

2004-05-14 Thread Mark Roberts
"Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 14 May 2004 at 12:11, graywolf wrote: > >> There may have been a running change in the production models. I could easily >> imagine the USB 1.1 chips becoming unavailable and a running design change being >> necessary. > >This particular Imaging Resour

Re: Kodak B&W "color negative"

2004-05-14 Thread Mark Roberts
Frantisek Vlcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >jwc> Anyone else try to print BW400CN in a darkroom? > >I asked about C41 B&W films a friend who is better experienced in the >darkroom, and he strongly advised me from trying to print them in B&W >darkroom. I have just made a batch of prints from

RE: PAW: Drop

2004-05-14 Thread frank theriault
I'm just not sure about this one. What? What's that? Here's a photo of Dag's that frank doesn't absolutely love? Well, I guess they do exist... It's not a bad photo, Dag. Far from it. It has potential. But, it just doesn't turn my crank. And, I don't know what it is that, for me, is mis

RE: PAW: City Hall

2004-05-14 Thread frank theriault
Wow!! I love this photo!! The building on the right, along with the walkway and railing beside it are angled about perfectly to frame the City Hall. What a great job of working with the perspective created by the walkway - it reminds me of HCB's famous photo of Sartre on the bridge in Paris (so

RE: PAW: Buildings on the move

2004-05-14 Thread frank theriault
I like all of them, but of the moving-the-building shots, I like the second one. Seems a bit more dynamic to me. Plus, you can see lots more wheels. Interesting documenary shots, both of them. I really like the shot from a moving car. Gorgeous mountains in the background. The blurry tree i

Re: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread graywolf
You would be suprised at how cooperative people can be if they think you are taking their picture with a "REAL CAMERA". It is not what he did that upsets me it is how he did it (poorly). -- Norm Baugher wrote: I just think it's kind of bizarre to use an 8x10 in that setting, kinda like using a

RE: Ever had one of those days......

2004-05-14 Thread TMP
lol! well, peter, i guess a duckhead would be better than a fickhead... lol. tan. (i am a lady, really, i am, i rarely swear in person! my trailer trash family does enough of that for me! ) -Original Message- From: Peter J. Alling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2004 8:

RE: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread TMP
Ok, so I've just been wracked with inspiration! What if I do a series of "Tanja A Day"? lol! Me, once a day, warts and all... Might be a cool thing to give to my kids... Has another photographer ever done this before? If so, anyone got a link? tan.

Re: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread Rob Studdert
On 14 May 2004 at 15:37, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Thirty-six, of which 18 were of exceptional quality, having been > photographed using the Pentax 110 camera. Har, you too hey? :-) Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.

RE: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread TMP
These are fantastic! I particularly love the obvious progression through the seasons and the different walks of life. Very cool (no pun intended) stuff... http://roarkjohnson.blogs.com/photos/stranger_a_day/ tan.

RE: non A lenses on the istD

2004-05-14 Thread Amita Guha
> Does this lens even have an aperture? Excuse me if it does, it's just > that IME mirror lenses don't. If it does, and isn't an A lens, then > aperture is controlled via the lens, not the body. It's a fixed 5.6.I'm also trying to use it with a Vivitar 2x teleconverter between them.

Re: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread Paul Stenquist
I love these shots. The crispness of the images shines through even on web scans. Very, very nice. Thanks for posting them. Paul On May 14, 2004, at 6:17 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:

RE: GFM Question

2004-05-14 Thread TMP
note to self: "self, if you hear Knarf say "h", "really", or "no kidding?" during GFM, get out your biggest, longest, heaviest lens, and bop him on the head with it.." end note... tan. -Original Message- From: frank theriault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2004 8:2

Re: non A lenses on the istD

2004-05-14 Thread Paul Stenquist
To expand on this answer, the camera should be set to "M" on the exposure method dial. With your image framed, push the green button, and the camera will set an exposure based on center weighted metering. Of course you must have firmware version 1.1, and you must set the custom functions to all

Re: OT: Max and his Out of Office AutoReply

2004-05-14 Thread Steve Jolly
I hope you realise you've probably just sparked off the bimonthly "cars" thread... S frank theriault wrote: You can speak for yourself, Tom. I don't need no fiat from on high to know I'm a fool. You can be the official fool, I'll be the unofficial one . I don't think they've imported Fiats to

Re: OT: Max and his Out of Office AutoReply

2004-05-14 Thread Peter J. Alling
The only problem with the X19 was that once it's wheels broke loose you had now idea what direction you would be facing when the spin stopped. frank theriault wrote: You can speak for yourself, Tom. I don't need no fiat from on high to know I'm a fool. You can be the official fool, I'll be the

Re: non A lenses on the istD

2004-05-14 Thread David Nelson
Amita Guha wrote: I'm trying to use my 400mm mirrored Sigma with it. Does this lens even have an aperture? Excuse me if it does, it's just that IME mirror lenses don't. If it does, and isn't an A lens, then aperture is controlled via the lens, not the body.

Re: Ever had one of those days......

2004-05-14 Thread Peter J. Alling
I wanted to say what's wrong with being a duckhead but it's not so funny now that I read it... TMP wrote: Bloody d*ckheads... tan. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2004 1:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ever had one of those

Re: PAW - Some duck in the park

2004-05-14 Thread frank theriault
Ann, You'll be bringing a Scrabble board and tiles, right? (Actually, I'm horrible at Scrabble. My mind just doesn't operate the right way, I'm afraid. And I don't know many big words...) -frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true."

RE: Max and his Out of Office AutoReply

2004-05-14 Thread TMP
heehee, bring it on, baby! lol tan. -Original Message- From: frank theriault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2004 8:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Max and his Out of Office AutoReply Tan, Now Interpol is going to be knocking at Attila's door, as well as yours

Re: OT: Max and his Out of Office AutoReply

2004-05-14 Thread frank theriault
You can speak for yourself, Tom. I don't need no fiat from on high to know I'm a fool. You can be the official fool, I'll be the unofficial one . I don't think they've imported Fiats to North America for a long time, anyway. I'm sure they work great in Europe, but they rusted like hell over h

Re: non A lenses on the istD

2004-05-14 Thread Peter J. Alling
You have to set the custom function to allow shutter release with lenses not set to the A setting on the lens. At least that's the way it worked when I tried my Vivitar Series 1 600 on it. (That was before the 1.1 version of the firmware was released). Amita Guha wrote: I thought I read somewh

Re: PAW - Some duck in the park

2004-05-14 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Frank, nothing pleases me more than getting groans when I pun... and there I'll be in GFM -- be afraid, be very afraid annsan frank theriault wrote: > > Ann, > > You've got some nerve. > > You wonder if I "have no shame?" > > You, who say that you "ruffled his feathers"? If you had

RE: Ever had one of those days......

2004-05-14 Thread TMP
Bloody d*ckheads... tan. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2004 1:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ever had one of those days.. .. where you wonder if you are actually speaking the same language as the local minilab

Re: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread Bob W
Hi, > I just had another look at the web page, and realised my mistake, and the > web page's mistake. > In my haste, I only looked at the index page, which shows the thumbnails. > A lot of them seem to show cropped versions of the originals - hence the > chopped heads to which I refer above. I wa

Re: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Thirty-six, of which 18 were of exceptional quality, having been photographed using the Pentax 110 camera. Shel Belinkoff > [Original Message] > From: Rob Studdert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 5/14/2004 3:30:29 PM > Subject: Re: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day >

Re: Monopods make people look !

2004-05-14 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Norm Baugher wrote: > > If I really want attention, I throw a big black blanket over my head > Norm > But then you wont be able to see to appreciate it! annsan > > Markus Maurer wrote: > > >Hi Tripod/Monopad Users :-) > > > >what really amazes me: > >If I carry only camera body and lens

Re: Quick DA question...

2004-05-14 Thread Peter J. Alling
Georgia Tech. only "thinks" they're as good a MIT... (I know that'll get me in trouble but "cest la vie"). Doug Franklin wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2004 13:33:30 -0400, Peter J. Alling wrote: or my personal favorites smoots 0.0094018 to 0.0264426 smoots. [...] SMC-Pentax DA 0.0094018 to 0.0264426

RE: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread Shawn K.
Ok, yeah, his method of cropping shots for thumbnails is strange. Glad you clicked on the links though, some of them are great, I like the one of a father and his daughter sitting on the bed of a truck, it was in Louisiana I think. Dont remember what day it was. -Shawn -Original Message

Re: OT: Word Wars reviewed in Washington Post

2004-05-14 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Christian wrote: > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25779-2004May13.html > > Christian Ouch - (re having to register) But I do like the Wash post... I jsut dont like th pop up ads. FOr those who have read the Washington Post review/article... MAtt Graham has never been called Ma

Re: GFM Question

2004-05-14 Thread frank theriault
...I get it now! Took a few readings, but now I get it. That was quite humourous, Cotty. Quite... cheers, frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No, I'm pretty sure Frank wi

Re: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread Peter J. Alling
And what's wrong with that? Norm Baugher wrote: kinda like using a howitzer to go deer hunting. Norm

Re: GFM Question

2004-05-14 Thread frank theriault
Huh? Wha? What did I do now? -frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Awww c'mon man...it's like battle scars. You'll be telling all your friends "this spot here is where TV sloppe

Re: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread Rob Studdert
On 14 May 2004 at 15:17, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > It's a different kind of photography, perhaps formal environmental > portraiture might be a good term for it. 35mm and medium format all have > their place, as does large format, yet it's nice to see the results when a > particular setup is used ou

Re: Test

2004-05-14 Thread Peter J. Alling
Is it pass fail or letter if the latter I'll have to study. Bruce Dayton wrote: List seems dead, just checking to see if I am still subscribed. Please reply as you see fit Bruce

RE: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread Shawn K.
I deem everything you justy said nonsense!! Weee this is fun!! -Shawn -Original Message- From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 5:58 PM To: pentax list Subject: RE: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day >I definitely don't understand why it would be called

Re: OT Cannon ad

2004-05-14 Thread Frits Wüthrich
Canon is running a commercial on the television in the Netherlands, for the '300D, out of respect for photography' or something similar. I have seen it several times. On Friday 14 May 2004 19:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FJW> There's a really nice ad in this month's Road & Track for Cannon touti

RE: GFM Question

2004-05-14 Thread frank theriault
If people give me beer, I'll do almost anything. Make chili. Watch kids. Pretend to be interested in banal conversations. Whatever... I'm very good at feigning interest. I sit, hand stroking chin, sagely nodding my head at regular intervals, throwing in the odd "h", "really", and "no k

RE: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Glad you took the time to LOOK, Cotty Shel Belinkoff > [Original Message] > From: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: pentax list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 5/14/2004 3:14:24 PM > Subject: RE: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day > > http://roarkjohnson.blogs.com/photos/stranger_a_day/ > >

RE: Max and his Out of Office AutoReply

2004-05-14 Thread frank theriault
Tan, Now Interpol is going to be knocking at Attila's door, as well as yours, for disseminating that important secret information without the specific permission of Max or his employer!! You guys are in trouble now! cheers, frank "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. Th

Re: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Hi Norm ... I disagree completely. Numerous photogs have used large format cameras in similar situations, their point being to obtain an entirely different type of photo that could be obtained with a smaller, hand-held camera used more discretely. A different relationship exists between the phot

Re: non A lenses on the istD

2004-05-14 Thread Bruce Dayton
Amita, Two things - you have to have the updated firmware loaded onto your camera (you can get this at the pentax website) and you have to set a custom function to allow firing of the shutter when not on 'A' setting HTH, Bruce Friday, May 14, 2004, 3:02:30 PM, you wrote: AG> I thought I read

RE: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread Cotty
http://roarkjohnson.blogs.com/photos/stranger_a_day/ Well, if ever there was a case of eating humble pie, this is it. I hereby and utterly retract and nullify any and all of the following what I wrote: [snip] >When I see a portrait like some of those shown, with heads chopped off, >or tops of h

non A lenses on the istD

2004-05-14 Thread Amita Guha
I thought I read somewhere that it was possible to use fully manual lenses on the istD. I'm trying to use my 400mm mirrored Sigma with it. I thought it was possible to just manually set the aperture on the camera, but I can't get it to work. Any ideas on this or am I out of luck? Amita

RE: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread Cotty
>I definitely don't understand why it would be called "nonsense". The guy has a style, I don't like it. Chopping off the tops of heads does nothing for me - it was done on purpose, not by accident (I assume?) - it was presented as as such, and so at the wishes of the photographer. He had control

Re: OT: Max and his Out of Office AutoReply

2004-05-14 Thread Cotty
On 14/5/04, BE AFRAID - BE VERY AFRAID, discombobulated, offered: >No, Frank is not "out of his office", he is "out of his mind". Cotty on the >other hand has neither an office, nor a mind to be out of. HAR! > >Graywolf thinks he is not very bright, knowing as he does that both these >guys >are

istD under £900 now!!

2004-05-14 Thread Rob Brigham
http://www.jacobsdigital.co.uk/products.php?productId=10198 Better get em quick - they had this price last weekend but by Monday it had gone back up to £1049!! Almost makes me want to buy a second one, except I still havent told the missus about the flashtrax yet...

Re: GFM Question

2004-05-14 Thread Cotty
>> I wonder if it's possible to toast pizza... >> >> Cotty > > >I'd advise turning the toaster on it's side first, >otherwise all the toppings fall off. Sound advice John. I was thinking more like over an open fire. I need one of those pizza shovels they use, but with holes in it? Cheers,

RE: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread Shawn K.
Maybe, a little bizarre, but, I think that might be part of the point, to project a certain sense of being photographed onto hi subjects. -Shawn -Original Message- From: Norm Baugher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Street Pho

Re: OT: Etymology

2004-05-14 Thread Bob W
Hi, Friday, May 14, 2004, 9:29:02 PM, graywolf wrote: > "Der Tisch" sounds nothing like "the table" to me. I think you need to blow den Staub off your German woerterbuch. -- Cheers, Bob

Re: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread Norm Baugher
I just think it's kind of bizarre to use an 8x10 in that setting, kinda like using a howitzer to go deer hunting. Norm Shawn K. wrote: Well, you have to remember he is setting up an 8x10 to take shots of people he doesn't know and probably trying his best not to waste their time. I personally th

Gitzo tripod questions.

2004-05-14 Thread Shawn K.
PDML'ers, I recently purchased a Gitzo G-1276M Mk2 Magnesium Universal Ball head from B&H Photo Video used and in of 10 condition according to their rating system for 120 bucks. I got this ball head because it can support up to 11 pounds, but more importantly is extremely flexible and would be go

Re: OT: Max and his Out of Office AutoReply

2004-05-14 Thread Doug Franklin
On Fri, 14 May 2004 16:37:35 -0400, graywolf wrote: > [...] claim to be an "Official Fool" [...] "Occupation: Foole. Spell it with a final 'e' just to piss them off." -- George Carlin TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ

Re: GFM Question

2004-05-14 Thread jaalmanza
An iron works pretty good too. Get two pieces of Pizza and press them against each other. Make sure the toppings are on the inside. Then press the iron against the outside. Heat to the desired temperature. /college trick ~Alejandro > Best way to re-warm it, toaster oven. But it's great c

Re: GFM Question

2004-05-14 Thread Peter J. Alling
Best way to re-warm it, toaster oven. But it's great cold too... Cotty wrote: On 14/5/04, CHILLI BILLIE, discombobulated, offered: whoa - what about the pizza??? Ain't that for Friday night? Nope, Saturday lunch. Bill c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-old??? I wonder if it's possible to toast

RE: Outlook Express Help Needed

2004-05-14 Thread Markus Maurer
Hi Gianfranco you can try moving all your DBX files into an other folder. Outlook Express then creates new ones at start and you can try to import from the old. Dont forget to compress Outlook Folders from time to time, thats important. Menu File --> Folders --> compress all You should be annoyed

Re: Ever had one of those days......

2004-05-14 Thread ernreed2
Wendy said: > > .. where you wonder if you are actually speaking the same language as > > the local minilab operators? (story snipped, but it IS worth reading) and then Christian offered: (another good story snipped) > WHAT! stupid people Not that it would've necessarily helped, but as a

Re: GFM Question

2004-05-14 Thread ernreed2
> On 13/5/04, ELEANOUOUOUOR, discombobulated, offered: > > >Should I be warning anybody "official" that I'll have one and two-thirds > >hangers-on, or is it totally no problem to bring them? Will there be enough > >food? > > I'll have a mondo stash of Twinkies and other goodies for emergencies,

Re: GFM Question

2004-05-14 Thread Cotty
On 13/5/04, GRAYWOLF-THE-ANALOGUE, discombobulated, offered: >Oh, that's right, you news guys have sat-phones. Great! Oh I wish, buddy. No such luck. Mobile and GSM, that's me. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps ___

Re: kit selection

2004-05-14 Thread Cotty
>> I have gotten to that point where my camera bag has gotten too heavy. > >Throw in a couple of bricks for a while. When you take them out it'll >feel light. There's some logic in that. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps __

Re: GFM Question

2004-05-14 Thread Cotty
On 14/5/04, CHILLI BILLIE, discombobulated, offered: >> whoa - what about the pizza??? >> Ain't that for Friday night? >Nope, Saturday lunch. > >Bill c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-old??? I wonder if it's possible to toast pizza... Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||

Re: Ever had one of those days......

2004-05-14 Thread Norm Baugher
Reminds me of that saying "I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter." Norm

Re: Street Photography ... A Stranger a Day

2004-05-14 Thread Cotty
On 13/5/04, GRAYWOLF, discombobulated, offered: >Ge, even with a view camera he can not avoid cutting off peoples heads. >Snapshots taken with an 8x10 are still snapshots. Taken with a 35mm they >would >be poorly done snapshots. With an 8x10 they are pretentious poorly done >snapshots. > >>> >>>

Re: OT: Etymology (was: RE: 50/1.4 and 135/2.5)

2004-05-14 Thread Bob W
Hi, Friday, May 14, 2004, 4:28:16 PM, Gianfranco wrote: > Jens Bladt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You may very well be wrong. >> Danish - as well as English - is a Germanic language. In fact > there's a lot >> of English words, that are originally Danish (old nordic), > brought to >> England by

Re: GFM Question

2004-05-14 Thread Cotty
On 13/5/04, NORM, discombobulated, offered: >I'll officially volunteer for baby-sitting duty during the seminars... >Norm No, I'm pretty sure Frank will be going in ROTFL! ahem. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|www.macads.co.uk/snaps ___

Re: Pentax * ist D doing badly in Fotomagazin test

2004-05-14 Thread Cotty
>> Trying not to be pedantic, but standing up to blanket statements! >> > >Taking (and being) the exception and trying to disprove something. > >Most people buy features and don't turn them off, ever. > >William Robb Well, I'd at least agree with that last one. Most people probably do. I think

Re: Pentax High End DSLR

2004-05-14 Thread Cotty
No problem Tom, I read your last line but chose to ignore it ;-) >If you and Shel had read my last line quoted below... > >However, there is still some loss of quality even with only one jpeg save >by the >camera. Whethere that is OK to you, only you can decide. > >Cotty wrote: >> On 13/5/04, GRA

Re: OT: Etymology

2004-05-14 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
That should have been his "progeny." My fingers are faster than my brain. Daniel J. Matyola wrote: The Danes ruled most of England for many years, back in the days of Canute and his progeny. Jens Bladt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You may very well be wrong. Danish - as well as English - is a G

Re: Ever had one of those days......

2004-05-14 Thread Peter J. Alling
Wendy, Idiots are everywhere, I feel your pain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. where you wonder if you are actually speaking the same language as the local minilab operators? I called at my local Blacks store to pick up some "gift" items, a mousemat and a t-shirts, which I had ordered. I had dr

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